The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the world, is returning to its ...

Mary Helen Peak Patterson, a "tireless crusader" in the effort to preserve the history of the Memphis-based Church of God in Christ and the widow of J.O. Patterson Sr., the church's longtime leader, ...

G.E. Patterson, the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ and a minister for almost 50 years, died of heart failure Tuesday in Memphis, Tenn., the church announced. He was 67. Patterson was ...

The Church of God in Christ has a new leader, the church announced Saturday. Bishop J. Drew Sheard of Detriot, Michigan takes over as the head of the worldwide organization whose headquarters resides ...

(RNS) — The son of a sharecropper who was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, founded St. Stephen’s Church of God in Christ in 1962. (RNS) — Bishop George Dallas McKinney, who has been regarded as a stalwart ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Church of God in Christ ...

Benjamin Haskell and his two accomplices were described by prosecutors as having “racism in their hearts and gasoline in their hands” when they torched the Macedonia Church of God in Christ. Bishop ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Church Of God In Christ (COGIC) announces the peaceful transition of Bishop John Henry Sheard, the beloved father of current Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle, Bishop J. Drew ...